On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices built on HTML5. We shared the behind-the-scenes story through this blog and decided to share more of our learnings in a brief series of follow up blo…
This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. Today’s post is a guest post written by Ron Hess from Salesforce.com.Recently I had the great pleasur…
Five years ago, Spring 1.0 brought Java dependency injection into the mainstream. Three years later, Google Guice 1.0 introduced annotation-based dependency injection and made Java programming a little easier. Since then, developers have had to choose …
Over the last few months, I’ve started inviting web gurus I know to give tech talks at Google. It’s been great to kick off this speaker series with such luminaries as John Resig, Doug Crockford, and PPK. (I snuck in there, too.) The biggest benefit fro…
This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. Today’s post is a guest post written by Ross Boucher, co-founder of 280 North.When we set out to buil…
Ignite is a series of geek nights started by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Makerbot Industries that has since spread around the world. The nights combine a Make contest (like a popsicle stick bridge-building contest) and a series …
Last week I was privileged to host PPK (Peter-Paul Koch) for a Google tech talk entitled “The Open Web Goes Mobile”. Most developers building web apps have benefited from PPK’s browser compatibility research hosted on his well known site quirksmode.org…
There are over 60 Google APIs across a wide range of products and technologies. The AJAX APIs include Google Search, Language, Maps, FriendConnect, and Visualization APIs. The team recently launched v2 of the AJAX APIs Playground, an app designed to sh…
With recent launches like Google Latitude and Google Toolbar with My Location, it’s clear we think location-based services are useful and fun! We also want developers everywhere to be able to use location to build cool new features and applications.I’…
This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. Today’s post is a guest post written by Alex Moffat, Chief Engineer – Blueprint, Lombardi SoftwareLom…
On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices built on HTML5. We shared the behind-the-scenes story through this blog and would like to share more of our learnings in a brief series of follow up …
The Visualization API is about charts and visualizations, so we try to push out new features and options to our growing list of charts every several weeks or so.Here are a few examples of recently launched charting options and additions:Lots of customi…
Heads up, early registration for Google I/O ends May 1. After this Friday, the rates increase $100 and even worse, you’ll lose out on your Google Chrome Comic book.Google I/O will feature 80+ sessions that cover Android, HTML5, App Engine, Chrome, AJA…
We launched Chrome Experiments last month to feature some of the crazy things that are now possible with JavaScript. Since then, a number of developers have submitted additional experiments, many of which have made us smile — take a look at a few of …
Google Web Toolkit, or GWT for short, recently went live with their 1.6 release, which also included a Google plugin for Eclipse and integration with App Engine’s Java language support. Google I/O will be rich with GWT content, including a number of se…